Aims of Course Freshman English for Majors is a four-skills course taught exclusively to majors of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. The goal of the course is primarily to improve students’ proficiency in communicative language skills with an emphasis on speaking and writing. A functional, notional approach is taken to planning objectives to help students gain confidence in using the English in social interactions. Therefore, active participation in the class is a prerequisite for successful completion. Content A variety of activities are used throughout the year including dialogues, role-plays, pair work, small group projects and whole class discussions. The syllabus includes a general review of grammar and many class activities attempt to integrate these grammar components. Therefore, students are given the opportunity to apply the rules to real-life situations that they might encounter in an English-speaking country. Teachers encourage students to monitor their grammar usage while improving their level of fluency.

On completion of this course, (1) in terms of ability (or skills), students will be able to listen, speak, read, and write better in English than before they take this course, (2) in terms of knowledge, (a) students will know more about the English language and how to learn it; (b) they will also know more about the life and culture of the English-speaking world, and (3) because of 2a, students will have a more positive attitude toward learning English, and because of 2b, students will have a more open and even appreciative attitude toward other people and their culture and lifestyle.

1. Textbooks - for lab ~ Connect with English (CWE)
- for class ~ American English File (AEF) and (a reading handout) Selected Readings from In Context, Between the Lines, Active Skills for Reading (Book 4), Multiple Reading Skills, & the script of a movie, the Bachelor .
2. Simplified Readers ~ (1) Mr. Midshipman Hornblower & (2) One of the four: The Hound of the
Baskervilles, A Tale of Two Cities, The Three Strangers and Other Stories, & The Wind in the Willows